Vanguardist Aesthetics: From Historical Vanguardism to Neo-Vanguardism

Abstract

This article aims to provide the evolution of the vanguardist point of view on aesthetics. Vanguardism called into question modern and classical artistic methods and especially, aesthetical assumptions of modernity. If historical vanguardism exaggerated a series of the features of modernity, neo-vanguardism refuses the cult of novelty and rejects permanent nihilism.